TIL that the late professional wrestler Bam Bam Bigelow received second degree burns over 40% of his body while rescuing 3 children from a burning house and spent 10 days recovering in a hospital.
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Bam Bam Bigelow
American professional wrestler
TIL: Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around "as high as a kite"
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Submitted August 14, 2019 at 02:52PM by Sariel007
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BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | 'Stoned wallabies make crop circles'
Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around "as high as a kite", a government official says.
TIL - Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer had a nursery built for her newborn in her office. This was at the same time she stopped allowing parents and others from working from home.
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r/todayilearned - TIL - Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer had a nursery built for her newborn in her office. This was at the same…
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Today I learned, after airspace was closed after the attacks of 9/11, 38 planes were diverted to a large dormant airport in Newfoundland Canada and the residents of Gander in Newfoundland welcomed in nearly 7,000 people into their homes and schools to stay while they where stranded for 6 days.
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An oasis of kindness on 9/11: This town welcomed 6,700 strangers amid terror attacks
TIL that "celebrity psychiatrist" Dr. Isaac Herschkopf manipulated a patient into cutting off his family, giving him his home, signing over his bank account, and amending his will to leave everything to the doctor's wife. Yet Dr. Herschkopf still maintains his medical license in New York City today.
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New York Post
How a celebrity shrink allegedly conned himself into patients’ wills
One Manhattan psychiatrist, who reportedly has treated Courtney Love and Gwyneth Paltrow at his Murray Hill office, is all about helping — himself, that is. Dr. Isaac Herschkopf used his influence
TIL that the real Top Gun School imposes a $5 fine to any staff member that quotes the movie
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AMC
Story Notes for Top Gun
How long did Top Gun stay in theaters? What convinced Tom Cruise to join the cast? Read on for the answer.
TIL that President Grant in 1875 called for taxing Church property equally and wrote that its tax exempt status was "an evil that, if permitted to continue, will probably lead to great trouble in our land".
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InfoPlease
State of the Union Address: Ulysses S. Grant (December 7, 1875)
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
TIL: Armin T. Wegner who resisted both the Armenian Genocide & the Holocaust. In 1915, he took hundreds of photos of the persecuted Armenians and was subsequently arrested. In 1933, he wrote a letter to Hitler denouncing the persecution of Jews, and was then sent to a concentration camp.
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Armin T. Wegner
German photographer
TIL That Idris Elba Pretended to Be American to Get his role as Russell "Stringer" Bell on HBO's Hit T.V. series 'The Wire'
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Complex
Idris Elba Pretended to Be American to Get on 'The Wire'
Idris Elba shared the hilarious tale of how he got his gig as Stringer Bell on HBO's 'The Wire' during his conversation with Sean Evans on 'Hot Ones.'
TIL in 1954, Soviet rocket engineer Sergei Korolev could not get funding to pursue a space program, so he planted a fake new-story claiming Russia was going to launch a satellite. The US responded that they were also going to launch one, so the Soviets then agreed to fund the program.
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BBC iPlayer
Revolutions: The Ideas that Changed the World - Series 1: 3. The Rocket
The incredible story of one of humankind’s most amazing inventions, the rocket.
TIL of the "Japanese Schindler," Chiune Sugihara, a diplomat who went against orders to save 6000 Jewish lives during the Holocaust
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Unseen Japan
Japan's Schindler: How Sugihara Chiune Saved Thousands of Jewish Refugees
The story of how a Japanese diplomat went against the dictates of his own government in order to issue Jewish refugees with visas to Japan.
TIL When Nikola Tesla showed in 1898 a radio controlled boat, people accused him of having a trained monkey driving it.
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Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla (/ˈtɛslə/;Serbo-Croatian: [nǐkola têsla]; Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла; 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-Americaninventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist who is best known for his contributions to the design…
TIL After Minnie Cox, the first black female postmaster was pressured out of her post, President Theodore Roosevelt continued to pay her salary and punished the town by rerouting their mail 30 miles away, in the end the atmosphere became so hostile that Mrs. Cox left for her own safety.
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TIL: In Back to the Future, the theatre in the background behind the clock tower shows "Orgy American Style" being shown. This is an actual porno from 1973. The male star from that porno played Red the Bum in the film, calling Marty a crazy drunk driver when returns to the present.
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Orgy American Style | Futurepedia | FANDOM powered by Wikia
Orgy American Style was a pornographic movie that played at the Essex Theater in 1985. The cost of a ticket was five dollars. Appearances Back to the Future Behind the scenes Not surprisingly, the...
TIL the day Jimi Hendrix died, Eric Clapton had bought a left-handed Fender Stratocaster as a gift for him. He intended on presenting it during a Sly Stone concert at the Lyceum that night, but Hendrix never showed up. The next day, Clapton learned why.
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American Blues Scene
When Eric Clapton Met Jimi Hendrix and the Gift That Was Never Received
The British blues rock wave of the 60s and 70s would have been much different if Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix had never met.
TIL the Japanese usually leave out most of their history from the early 1900s to WW2 from their high school curriculum.
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BBC News
What Japanese history lessons leave out
Twentieth Century history is one of the most controversial subjects in the Japanese school curriculum, reports Mariko Oi.
TIL that the "lucky cigarette" tradition of flipping a cigarette upside-down and saving it until the end of the pack originated from the myth that 1 cigarette in every Lucky Strike pack contained marijuana.
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Urban legends about drugs
Wikimedia list article
TIL Bob The Builder was planned to be reshot for Japanese audiences due to all characters possessing four fingers instead of five. Members of the Yakuza, Japan's "most feared mafia" cut off their pinky to show they can be trusted, so Bob and his friends looked more like gangsters than contractors.
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BBC News | ENTERTAINMENT | Bob the Builder fixed for Japan
Television favourite Bob the Builder is to have his fingers doctored for the Japanese market - because he looks like a gangster.
TIL that the practice of playing music for callers on hold began with a faulty phone line connection. A loose wire touching the steel frame of an office building caused it to act as a giant radio receiver, allowing callers to hear music from local radio stations while they waited on hold.
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Music on hold
the business practice of playing recorded music to fill the silence that would be heard by telephone callers who have been placed on hold
TIL that in 2016, the worlds tallest waterslide decapitated a 10 year old due to gross negligence and all charges were dismissed.
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Submitted August 15, 2019 at 01:33AM by jasonseannn
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The Atlantic
The World’s Tallest Waterslide Was a Terrible, Tragic Idea
A fatal accident at a waterslide park was the result of gross negligence, lax state regulations, and a whole lot of hubris.
TIL Sacha Baron Cohen Sent Cut ‘Who Is America?’ Interview to FBI Over Fears of Las Vegas Pedophile Ring (FBI decided not to pursue it)
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IndieWire
Sacha Baron Cohen Sent Cut ‘Who Is America?’ Interview to FBI Over Fears of Las Vegas Pedophile Ring
The comedian says the interview led him to believe there could be "a pedophile ring in Las Vegas."